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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

“Bring Dessert”

As a person with celiac disease, I try to help out the
hostess by offering to bring something if I have been invited to dinner or to a
beach house or wherever. Part of that is
common courtesy and part of that is to ease the host family’s fear of coming up
with some dish that is gluten-free so that I can eat it.

This past weekend, we spent the night out in Montauk and I
was asked to bring dessert. I got my inspiration
at Stop & Shop in their seasonal section!
They had everything all set for S’mores, the store even had a cute tray
and the special S’mores sticks for the BBQ.
The only extra work I had was making sure to purchase gluten-free graham
crackers for the two of us on a gluten-free diet.

This was a lot easier than trying to pack a pie or cupcakes
or a cake for the drive out to the beach.
Because it was so hot, the chocolate was melty to begin with when we
made these and they were completely a gooey mess. The Jumbo Marshmallows were showy, but in my
humble opinion, it was just way too much melty marshmallow per S’more…stick to
the regular size marshmallow for the right proportion of ingredients.

Everyone had to have one! I wish I had taken photos of the
hands and faces that were covered with melted chocolate and marshmallow when we
finished up.

3 comments:

I can't even say how much I love S'mores! What a fantastic dessert idea. I'm curious, how were the cinnamon cookies in lieu of the graham crackers? Reading this post, I had my fingers crossed that somehow, the HoneyMaid grahams would turn out to be GF and I had just missed it, but alas, they're still made with enriched wheat flour, as always. I'm looking forward to trying the Kinnikinnick S'moreables...hopefully they hold up just as well as regular graham crackers. Have you ever tried them?